You're not the only one bro.
What's up NT? First time posting in this forum. Hope everybody is in good spirits today.
- I'm 22 years old and currently in a Master's Program for School Psychology. I've always felt an affinity for helping children mentally in school districts (mainly HS'ers). I'm also working on campus as a Graduate Assistant.
- I'm in the first of a 3 full year program which includes summers. By the 3rd year, as a part of my program, I'll be interning full time at a school unpaid, and will have to quit my GA position.
- Lately I've been stressing heavy about a lot of things. For starters, school has been my whole entire life. I'm feeling the burnout of constantly having to sit 2+ hrs listening to a teacher go on about what it's like to be working in X field. I don't even give full effort working on assignments anymore. I want to finally go out and work, but it's going to be another few months before I start my practicum.
It doesn't help to have your family clown you about always being at school, that I'm going to graduate again in another 2 years. I don't even have the zeal to find a "side job". School takes up so much time and energy, I don't know how many ways I can split myself for the sake of money
My girl keeps nagging me about finding work, but it's just like with what time? where? and for how long? i quit 2 jobs the summer before I started, because a) I took them because I thought I needed work, and b) because I didn't think I'd get into the program.
- Money has also been a stressor. I'm still paying for school, having to take out loans, and not getting any sort of money back. i don't even know what kind of job I can take on right now, or when I start my internship. I'm still living at home with my parents, commuting back and forth.
- My professors keep telling me to keep going, get the PhD, my family tells me the same thing. "You'll never have to worry about doing it again." But it's just getting harder and harder to invest in something that doesn't pay in this day and age. The interest rates on the loans will just keep going up.
It's all just beginning to feel like a game I have an extreme disadvantage in.